Tovah Feldshuh

For her work on the New York stage, from Yentl to Sarava! to Lend Me A Tenor to Golda’s Balcony, Tovah Feldshuh has earned four Tony nominations for Best Actress and won four Drama Desk Awards (including one for Golda’s Balcony), four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre World Award and the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress (Golda’s Balcony). On October 3, 2004, Golda’s Balcony became the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway. Soon after the Broadway closing in January 2005, she performed Golda’s Balcony for four very successful weeks in Los Angeles.
Other New York theater credits include the title roles in the Roundabout Theater’s She Stoops To Conquer and Mistress Of The Inn, BAM’s Three Sisters with Rosemary Harris and Ellen Burstyn, the long-running hit The Vagina Monologues and roles on Broadway in Cyrano (with Christopher Plummer), Rodgers And Hart and Dreyfus In Rehearsal. Off-Broadway, she starred as Tallulah Bankhead in her own Tallulah Hallelujah!, which was chosen as one of the Ten Best Plays of the Year by USA Today. Among other roles, Ms. Feldshuh has portrayed Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, Jean Brodie in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Sarah Bernhardt, Stella Adler, Sophie Tucker, Katharine Hepburn, three queens of Henry VIII and nine Jews from birth to death in Off-Broadway’s Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh.
On television, she received her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Czech freedom fighter, Helena, in Holocaust. She starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes, James Woods in Citizen Cohn, Bill Cosby on The Cosby Mysteries and The Cosby Show and Richard Dreyfuss in The Education Of Max Bickford. In 2004 she was nominated for her second Emmy for her work on Law And Order as defense attorney Danielle Melnick.
Feature films include, Fox Searchlight’s Kissing Jessica Stein, for which she won the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress; A Walk On The Moon with Diane Lane; Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei, The Corruptor with Mark Wahlberg, Daniel, The Idolmaker (Dir. Taylor Hackford), Three Little Wolfs, Friends and Family, Old Love, Nunzio, The Believer, Life On The Ledge, The Alchemist, Toll Booth (winner – Best Supporting Actress - Method Fest 2005) and, most recently, Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan, Mount Of Olives with F. Murray Abraham and O Jerusalem with Ian Holm, in which she plays Golda Meir.
Two seasons ago her one-woman show, Tovah: Out Of Her Mind!, sold out in London’s West End at the Duke Of York’s and culminated in a symphonic concert with Billy Crystal at Los Angeles’ Royce Hall. The Boston Globe selected Tovah: Out Of Her Mind! as the best one-person show of 2000. Other West Coast credits include starring at the Ahmanson as Regina in Lillian Hellman’s Another Part Of The Forest and serving as a leading lady for Jack O’Brien and Craig Noel at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in such shows as Romeo and Juliet, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, Measure For Measure, The Country Wife and Tovah: A Rush Hour Review, where she was named an Associate Artist and won two Drama Logue Awards for her Juliet and for her first one-woman show.
Ms. Feldshuh, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, has taught at Yale, Cornell and New York Universities. She is a supporter of Seeds Of Peace, a non-profit, non-political organization that helps teenagers from regions of conflict and is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award and the Israel Peace Medal. Ms. Feldshuh is married to New York attorney, Andrew Harris Levy. The have two children, Garson Brandon and Amanda Claire.

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